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The GFGS Stand at the Malvern Autumn Show 2019

On Wednesday 25th September I travelled to Lydney to collect some exhibits for the stand at Malvern.

On Thursday 26th September I travelled to Slimbridge to pick up some exhibits and then across to the Three Counties Showground after picking up Tom Price and some equipment up from Maisemore so we could start putting together the GFGS Stand for the Malvern Autumn Show.

Having arrived and located our space in the Harvest Pavilion we set about assembling our hardware ready for the plants the following day, once again time well spent in our opinion.

On Friday 27th September I picked up Tom Price at Maisemore and with a van packed with plants/boxes etc., some of which had been delivered earlier in the day by Alan Cursue we set off for the Malvern Showground to put together the GFGS Stand. Having finished we adjourned to the Stockmans for a well-earned coffee before our journey home.

The stand was made up of boxes/baskets etc., which had been filled with plants/vegetables supplied by member clubs/societies (See list below), and finished with the Federations display board erected on one side of the plant display.

Once again, I along with my long suffering wife arrived bright and early on Saturday 28th to allow time to put out information literature on a number of topics, including information supplied by member clubs and societies and found ourselves with a RHS Silver Medal.

We were pleased that three schools had agreed to take part and they were,

Ashchurch Primary Junior School, Ashchurch, Glos.

Bourton on the Water Primary Academy, Bourton on the Water, Glos.

Churchdown Village Junior School, Churchdown, Glos.

Our thanks to the students of the school gardening clubs for their contribution to the stand which I’m sure helped us in getting awarded a ‘RHS Silver Medal’!

Other boxes and plants were provided by the following clubs/societies,

AGS Cotswold & Malvern Alpine Group (Pauline Carless)

Bream Gardening Society (Roy Haviland)

Cheltenham Allotment Holders Association (Colin & Rosemary Smith)

Cheltenham & District Orchid Society (Tom Price & Rod Wells)

Cotswold Fuchsia & Pelargonium Society (Robert Champion)

Hucclecote Horticultural Society (Jan Broadway & Alan Cursue)

Slimbridge Horticultural Society (Carole Jeffes)

Spring Gardens Allotments Society (Chris Small)

Thornbury Horticultural Society (Dot Culverhouse)

During the day the stand was visited by a number of people who were very interested in what we were trying to do to involve schools and the benefits provided for our member clubs and societies.

Once again we arrived early on Sunday 29th to put out information literature again because if it’s left out overnight it gets damp!

At 4 pm we started to take the stand down, and as usual it came down a lot faster than it went up!

Finally, my thanks to all involved in supplying exhibits, setting up, stewarding, judging and taking it all down at the end, without their help and hard work we would not have produced a stand which was admired by many attending the show, including the Judges!

It also potentially gained a few new members for Affiliated Societies, a new speaker, enquiries about grants for school gardening clubs and interest in our ‘Guild of Judges’.

More images of the GFGS Stand

I remind members that if your Club/Society has space at your show and can provide a 6′ by 2′6″ table (approx.) if we can we will attend with a small information display stand, for more information please contact me, details below.

I would also appeal to Clubs/Societies to send me a copy of their Show Poster/Schedule and any other information that we could put on the website and display on our information stand.

This information can be emailed to me at gfgs@cheltenhamorchids.org or by snail mail to me at 15 Lapwing Close, Northway, Tewkesbury, Glos, GL20 8TN.

Rod Wells.

You can also see pictures from earlier shows: